The Official Blog of TALES FROM THE EXPAT HAREM: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Expat Harem’s Experts: Authors, Speakers, and Television GuestsOur knowledgable Expat Harem contributors have once more been called upon to share their expertise on topics Turkish. We applaud their myriad successes!

Sally Green is an instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at Colorado University at Boulder. Susan Fleming Holm is the Dorothy Donald Professor of Modern Foreign Languages at Monmouth College.

Kathleen Hamilton Gundogdu Featured on American Public TelevisionThis month on American public television, Rudy Maxa's World aired a travel segment on Istanbul featuring Expat Harem writer and personal shopper Kathleen Hamilton Gundogdu as she revealed the innerworkings of the Grand Bazaar and showed Rudy how to bargain.

Kathleen, a columnist for top English-language national newspaper in Turkey, Today’s Zaman, is also a regular contributor to international periodicals such as London-based Taste Anatoliaand Hali magazines.

Jessica Lutz’s Latest Book on TurkeyCongratulations to Jessica Lutz whose book Gezichten van Istanbul, verhalen over een stad tussen twee continenten (Faces of Istanbul: Tales From a City Between Two Continents) was published by Uitgeverij Conserve in the Netherlands this spring. She’s now working on the English translation of this lyrical portrait of the Turkish city which holds her heart.

A veteran journalist for Dutch television and resident of Turkey for nearly two decades, Jessica also shared her perspective on the dark side of the city in the anthology Istanbul Noir, to be released in November. Her first book on Turkey, De Gouden Appel, was published in 2002 by Uitgeverij De Geus.